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Is there a story about when Moses raised his staff to split the Red Sea that there were twelve different walls of water for each tribe? Is there a story where two of Korah's sons were spit back up out of the earth after they were swallowed up because they had repented?

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From what I’ve understood about the Holocaust, there were some Jews whose lives were spared, at least temporarily, in exchange for them working to manufacture various items for the Nazis. What they were manufacturing in some cases were items the Nazis needed in order to murder other Jews. Many Jews ultimately survived the Holocaust this way. Was this work that these Jews did forbidden by Jewish law on the basis that they were contributing to the murder of their fellow Jews?

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Throughout Jewish history, has there been a period when non Jews participated in synagogues? Are there any records of something like this in Mishnaic or Talmudic times?

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Dear Rabbi, This is so embarrassing. We are horrified and don’t know what to do. We are not Jewish. We are Catholic, but most of our close friends are Jewish. We are strong supporters of the Jewish people and the state of Israel, where we have been. We have attended the bar and bat mitzvahs of the children of our friends. We have been to Passover seders. Some of our friends consider us honorary Jews. We have a beautiful 19-year-old mentally challenged daughter who lives with us. She doesn’t appear visibly handicapped. Anyone who meets her might think she is smart by the way she talks. She has been with us to the Sabbath and holiday meals of our friends and to bar and bat mitzvahs and Jewish weddings and to Israel too. And she has Jewish friends she hangs around. We live across the street from a public park. Recently, an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest rally was staged at this park. We were at work during the day when it happened and would probably not have known about it if not for what happened with our daughter. It was a day she had off from her job at a restaurant. She saw the rally outside the window and became curious. She walked across the street into the crowd, not knowing what she was getting into. All the organizers wanted was a body and perhaps someone noticed her naivety. They gave her a Palestinian flag to wave and a sign that read “Free Palestine” under the guise of it being a human rights cause. Just as luck would have it, a reporter snapped a photo of whom he perceived was a beautiful young woman with an eye-catching smile at that very moment. That photo appeared on the front page of our local newspaper. The picture has apparently gone viral on social media. She does not have the mind to comprehend the situation in the Middle East, no matter how much we try to explain it to her. She has no recognition that those people or their cause are bad. She does not understand the implication of what she did. All she understands is that she was on the front page of the paper. And she is proud of her 15 minutes of fame. Wherever we go with her in public now, strangers are approaching us and saying they recognize her from the news. She wants to be wanted, and when someone put her in the spotlight, it made her feel important. We are in shock.

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Why did the children of Israel ask to “borrow” gold, silver and jewels of the Egyptians knowing they would not be paying it back?

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Shalom, if I may ask another question regarding Jacob. It is said that he dwelled in tents. What does this mean exactly? I was told that it meant he studied the Torah. Is this true?   Thank you.  

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Dear friends, I am a Christian pastor (not evangelical or fundamentalist!) and I have a question about Shabbat. I pray you will have patience with my question if it is poorly worded, especially if in any way I give offense. Stories about Jesus tell of him performing forbidden deeds on the Sabbath. (Picking grain, healing a man with a withered hand) The Christian scriptures (in Mark 2 and 3) give no indication that life was being threatened in either case. And, in both cases, Jesus and his followers were criticized by the Pharisees. (I’ll get to my question) I believe that the Pharisees were quite right in their criticism. Am I right in believing that Shabbat is core to the Jewish faith of the day? What I mean is not just that it was ‘important,’ but that in some ways it was a non-negotiable correlate for the shalom that G-d intends for all of creation……that the tob me’od of Creation offers a picture of life in all of its fullness, i.e., Shalom. So, when you start picking away at Shabbat - by doing the kinds of things Jesus and his friends were doing - you are doing far more than picking away at little rules. You are, in fact, denying that G-d’s design for creation is worthy; by abrogating Shabbat you are second-guessing the hesedh that is G-d’s orientation toward his people, and even the whole cosmos. It’s like a stack of Jenga sticks, it seems to me: pull one out and the whole thing could collapse: the “thing” being a complete cosmology of divine delight in creation. Breaking Sabbath aligns one with a vision of a godless world. It’s just that serious…..and hence the Pharisees were correct. Is that a more-or-less accurate depiction of the seriousness of Sabbath and its observance . . . . . That “Sabbath” and “Shalom” are very much in the same family…..not the same, but with a very substantial overlap? Of course, as a mainline Christian I look to an eighth day Sabbath, along with associations of ‘new creation’ and even ‘new Adam’ (both are phrases used by the apostle Paul), but that’s really another story. I just wonder whether I am accurately characterizing an ancient, and perhaps modern, sense of Shabbat/Shalom. I thank you for your patience and kindness in considering my question.

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What ever happened to the 48 Levite cities? Do they still exist today, and if so, do they still have the same names? Does any of the architecture from them still exist?

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I am trying to create a "profile" of the mindset of the Jewish people during their captivity in Egypt up to and including the appearance of Moses. Holy Scripture says that they prayed to God for deliverance from bondage, so they must have thought that God could deliver them in some way. But what did the Jews believe about God then, and what could He do? Did they only know Him through the Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob) and Joseph? Did the Hebrews only know their stories and how God interacted with them, or was there an oral tradition passed down to a few, some, or all the people regarding the creation, flood, fall of humanity, etc?